Monday, February 5, 2007

Remove Spyware : New Malware.j

Overview

This is a trojan detection. Unlike viruses, trojans do not self-replicate. They are spread manually, often under the premise that they are beneficial or wanted. The most common installation methods involve system or security exploitation, and unsuspecting users manually executing unknown programs. Distribution channels include email, malicious or hacked web pages, Internet Relay Chat (IRC), peer-to-peer networks, etc.

Symptoms
  • Symptoms of malware vary greatly. Some common symptoms which may be observed in the case of New Malware.j detections are as follows.
  • Unknown processes are running.
  • Unknown ports are open.
  • Reduced system performance

Remove

Run this free online scan from Panda . Then download and run ccleaner to clean out all your temp files. Make sure there is not anything in the recycle bin that you need as ccleaner will delete recycle bin items unless checked not to do so..

Then download,update and run these spyware removal programs

Credit : www.mcafee.com and jabuck http://www.computing.net/security/wwwboard/forum/16921.html